Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escaped to safety in Ireland, British police searched the homes of hundreds of Irish nationals living in England and held scores of Irishmen for questioning. Apart from the terrorists, almost everyone appeared to have been shocked by the latest wanton killing of civilians. Even Irish Catholic M.P. Bernadette Devlin, who a few weeks ago angrily stated that she "would not shed a single tear" for any British soldiers killed in revenge, admitted that the act of retaliation had gone "horrifically wrong." In Dublin, Irish Republican Prime Minister John Lynch "unreservedly" condemned "this cowardly and senseless...
...found against the British Army on a fine legal point concerning its security role in Ulster. On the same day, the Heath government rushed through a bill retroactively legitimizing everything the Army had done as keeper of the Ulster non-peace; the only dissenting voice was that of Bernadette Devlin...
...shooting started is not clear, and the matter is now subject to a judicial inquiry undertaken by Britain's Lord Chief Justice, Sir John Widgery. What is certain is that trouble began as the march was ending, and just as the first speaker, Member of Parliament Bernadette Devlin, began to address the crowd. At the foot of William Street, where British troops had blocked the entrance to Londonderry's main business district with armored cars and barbed-wire barricades, there was the clatter of stones, bottles and bits of steel as the troops were attacked by what...
...First Shot. Another witness was Bernadette Devlin, the only Westminster M.P. present at Bloody Sunday. In her account of the incident to Commons, she insisted that "the first shot fired came from the British army wounding a civilian below the knee." Then she spoke of the panicked people, who were fleeing and falling. "It was a sight I never want to see again: thousands and thousands of people lying flat on their faces on the ground. I was lying on my mouth and nose." While prone, she tried "to tell the people to keep their heads down...
...inquiry into the tragic events in Londonderry. However, Maudling echoed the army's argument that the troops "returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs." At this point Devlin leaped to her feet on a point of order. When her objection was curtly dismissed by the Speaker, she shrieked, "Is it in order for the Minister to lie to the House?" As pandemonium broke loose, Laborite Hugh Delargy bellowed that the paratroopers would go down in history "with the same odium...